Berlin Fresco - Selected Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781848610965)

Berlin Fresco is the first volume in English by the German poet, translator, editor, and publisher, Norbert Hummelt. Born in the Rhineland in 1962, he has been a freelance writer since 1991, and editor of the literary-critical journal Text+Kritik. He has taught at the Deutsche Literaturinstitut (German Literature Institute) in Leipzig and at the Universität der Künste (University of the Arts) in Berlin. He has translated the poetry of W.B. Yeats, Wordsworth and Inger Christensen, as well as Eliot's Four Quartets and The Waste Land.

"but death takes each one by the hand: the thin man

in his white robe the picture the crumbling script that speaks

again and again of just one thing: mr monk I would just like to say

something: see how well I can dance before you all .. god every

time I hear that I'm so sorry I still want to get this and that

finished and make it to the rhine just one more time the way it looks

in the old engravings .. and then fade for ever into the wall"